Town & Country
Lost in the maze
THE world’s largest classical labyrinth is currently being constructed from traditional Cornish hedging in the heart of Bodmin Moor, a project that has unexpectedly led to the foundation of the Outdoor University of Cornish Hedging.
This new piece of public art—Kerdroya— set to be 184ft in diameter on completion, replaces a disused car park with a joyful mixture of all the different local hedging styles in a ‘footprint’ of the Duchy, says the team behind the project Golden Tree Productions. Currently in progress, master hedgers on site are offering a range of Lantra-accredited courses and a six-month apprenticeship for 62 students.
The humble and ancient Cornish hedge, stresses artistic director Will Coleman, ‘is not what in England is called a hedgerow. Nor is it a dry-stone wall. But it is somewhere between the two and there’s an entire philosophy behind it—skills, folklore, technique and so on—intangible cultural stuff about how
